Politicians and pundits across the political spectrum warn of a return to the decade of stagflation, urban decay, and labor mutiny. Their solution? The failed policies of the 1970s.

Gurnah’s haunting novels of war and oppression, which won him the Nobel Prize in literature last year, defy the dominant trends in American publishing.

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

Longtermists focus on ensuring humanity’s existence into the far future. But not without sacrifices in the present.

At its peak in the eighteenth century, Jena in Germany may have had a higher concentration of geniuses than Renaissance Florence or ancient Athens—and plenty of drama.

How John Roberts lost control of the Supreme Court

Americans may appear to be split along educational lines—but the dysfunction goes much deeper.

A new isolationist strain is gaining dominance in the GOP. The noninterventionist part is fine. But then there’s the admiration for Putin, the hatred of alliances, the hostility to NATO ...

They need to show “how close we came to losing our democracy, and embracing full-blown fascism.”

Inside Ukraine’s underground boot camps

The GOP believed it could appeal to its extremist fringe, without succumbing to it.

The expanded child tax credit lifted millions of kids out of poverty, but Congress failed to extend it. Now the Colorado senator is facing the difficulty of running on an expired policy.

The Republicans’ MAGA lunacy is making reelection a breeze for the Michigan governor. And if Biden opts out—or loses—in 2024, she may be the party’s next standard-bearer.

Before the religious right co-opted the issue, the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion worked to merge religion and reproductive rights.

The city is the first in the country to pass, and begin to implement, a reparations program. Changing laws to undo discrimination is one thing. But will white citizens really be willing to pay for it?

They’re often just cops by another name.

This spring, a virulent strain of bird flu ripped through U.S. farms. The public hardly noticed. That we could ignore the disease shows just how little we’ve learned about the origin of new viruses.